Wellbeing and Engagement

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Professional learning (PL) day focus:  On our recent professional learning day the engagement and wellbeing team worked with staff to practice strategies to enhance our safe and inclusive classroom practices. Following on from our 2023 professional learning of emotional intelligence, we explored self-regulation and co-regulation.

Self- regulation: is described as the ability to manage and control feelings and emotions.

Co-regulation: is the process of supporting young people to build self-regulatory capacity by modelling and doing it together.

Through a range of different approaches, we work with our classes and individual students, to scaffold self-regulation strategies. We focus on providing a structured environment with predictable routines that decrease cognitive load, enhance and promote positive relationships and through modelling we teach and apply a range of different strategies such as positive primers & brain break activities to regulate our emotions and get ready for learning.

During our PL staff came together to explore and practice a variety of these strategies. Together we developed resources which can be used in the classroom.

During the professional learning day, I also spent time with our student leadership team exploring safety within our Woodmans Hill community. Students openly discussed their perception of safety within our community, identifying specific areas of focus. Throughout our time together the leadership team coordinated a plan to collect further student voice. In the coming week/s our student leadership team will host student forums and will work with their peers to collect feedback on safety, bullying and solutions to student driven focus areas.

It was such a great opportunity to spend such valuable time with out student leadership team, listening to important matters from a student perspective. I look forward to the feedback they will collect in the coming weeks.

Magic Moments:  Over the most recent holiday break four year 10 students, Ertha, Stella, Bailey & Joel travelled to Sydney to participate in the Magic Moments summit. Their attendance at the summit was supported through the Community Bank Buninyong, Bendigo Bank Branch.

The trip including five days of non-stop learning including financial literacy, a variety of techniques and strategies designed to support young people physically, mentally and emotionally. Shannon and I were invited, alongside their parents/ guardians, to hear the group present to community members about their experiences. All of us commented about the growth each individual had experienced and enjoyed hearing about how much they ‘crammed’ into their five day experience.